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She cheated on me, says lover who killed businesswoman

August 7, 2014 by Olaleye Aluko

Killer Bussinesswoman

The Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday paraded a 31-year-old suspect, Kelechi Williams, who allegedly murdered his lover, a Lagos businesswoman, Lizzy Njideka, in her apartment in FESTAC Town, Lagos.

PUNCH Metro had reported that the police were hunting the killer of 39-year-old Njideka, adding that detectives from the Area E Police Command, FESTAC, were closing in on the suspect, who was said to have escaped to Ghana with the victims’s $50,000, N8m and a Range Rover.

It was learnt that Njideka, who was killed around 2am on Saturday, July 19, was first discovered by a security guard in the premises, identified as Mr. John Tungwim from Plateau State.

On Wednesday during interrogation, Williams explained that he strangled his lover, Njideka, to death with her own wrapper after he suspected that she was cheating on him.

He said, “We have known each other since 2011, but we started dating February this year. I am from Anambra State, but I was based in Ghana as a trader. On that week in July, I had returned from Ghana to pay her a visit. On Thursday, we went out together. Then on Friday morning, she went out alone because she got a new house and was arranging to pack in. She promised to come back by 6pm, but she did not. I began to feel suspicious. She eventually came back by midnight, and she was drunk. While we were talking, a call came in to her phone; I picked it and heard a man’s voice calling her baby.

“Having suspected she was not faithful to me anymore, I asked her out of annoyance to return my money which I used to buy an Air Conditioner for her new house. It was N300,000. She said she did not have the money and was too tired to withdraw it from the ATM.

“We quarreled and she started dragging her phone with me. She slapped me and held my private parts. So, we started fighting.

“She had a wrapper around her neck ─ she had wanted to go to the bathroom. I used the wrapper to strangle her.

“Seeing that she had died, I became afraid and confused. So, I went out with the Range Rover that night and withdrew N100,000 from the bank using her ATM. I decided to take the vehicle and flee to Ghana because I knew her relatives would soon be after me.”

Tungwim, the guard at Njideka’s apartment, told our correspondent that Williams lied to him that he was coming back to pick Njerika for night clubbing.

He said, “When madam came back around 12am that night, she instructed me and the housemaid that we would start packing to her new house the following morning. She then went inside. But around 2am, the man came out and said he was going to the club with my madam. He asked me for her ATM pin and I told him. We even went to the bank together. But at the bank, he lied that he was going to pick his friends and would return to pick madam. That was the last we saw of him.”

Our correspondent learnt that Williams was arrested in Cote D’Ivoire, having been tracked through the Range Rover, with the help of the Interpol. It was gathered that the Police in Cote D’Ivoire, and Ghana had worked with the Area E command to ensure the arrest of the suspect.

The police also revealed that Williams had gone to a church in Ghana and had celebrated the purchase of a new vehicle, while the cleric had allegedly blessed the vehicle.

Also, the elder brother to the deceased, Mr. Christian Mekowulu, remarked that his sister had wanted to do business with Williams, but the suspect killed her because of the wealth, looting all her property.

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, noted that the police have yet to recover all the money Williams escaped with.

He said, “This is the boy that called the lady a girlfriend. He came back from Ghana, killed her and wanted to escape with the loot packed in the woman’s vehicle. He went away with hard currencies, and also got himself a new International Passport.

“We are still working on recovering all the loot. People who are entering into relationship should be careful who they are involved with.”

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